Do you collect mushrooms in your country? Poles in Poland do.

never heard about miodownik. Well im not specialist, I've never been in forest in fall so how much can I know about mushrooms... ;)


You must be kidding. You dont like sos z kurek with poptatos? Mniam!

You simply don't know how to cook them. ;)

You don’t know what you’re missing, nothing like a homemade mushroom soup after a successful mushroom hunt. Yummy :-)

i think it's a tradition in poolish.but i heard about fishing of father and son but never heard about collecting mushrooms.

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Yes, we do collect mushroom. . . But I never really got the chance to do myself. . .mushroom in my native language is 'pa', we have numerous mushroom, i like them, some taste like meat you may say.

Good it is not pooh.

pawian- yes, maybe i should call it Pooh for your sake.

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Sorry, forgot to ask: which language exactly?


we means who?

I have a few questions about Polish cuisine.The lovely polish girl who took care of my wife when she was ill,used to cook me a vegetable stew like a ratatouille(French dish) that was fantastic.She used a tomato base and also made a version using milk/cream aslo fantastic.What is this dish called?She told us that Poles outside the cities eat mostly vegetable dishes since beef is not widely available.Michealina another lovely Polish women who worked for my parents for 20 years cooked meat dishes with apples and pears(delicious).Is this also typical of Polish cusine?

Why is it when I go to American supermarkets signs scream "Polish Kielbasa"? Isnt Kielbasa automatically Polish?What are some typical Polish dishes besides pierogies and keilbasa thats all they sell in US supermarkets.

The season started in July. Half of my holiday prey this year was chantarelles. As usual. When I run into a gang of them, I usuall use a scythe - it is esasier and quicker. :):):):)


Yes, I am one of few Poles who collect them. But we seldom eat them on the same day - I dry them and make spicy powder.


Species name - lejkowiec - funnel mushroom. Local name is cholewka - boot mushroom.

Would that be Lejkowiec dęty/Craterellus cornucopioides? Unfortunately, they don't grow (or don't grow in abundance) round our way (Podlasie). My wife says they need a chalky soil. Where are you?

Boczniak (Pleurotus ostreatus) are seldom picked around her; there just isn't a local tradition for collecting them. As a result, we are able to find lots of them, usually growing on the sawn stumps of poplars. Once we took three kilos from one stump. People buy them in the shops for quite a lot but don't think to just stop by the side of the road and pick them. These Oyster mushrooms fetch a very good price in western Europe. I wonder how they cultivate them there.

It has been another poor season for Chanterelles (Cantharellus cibarius) in our region. I'm looking forward to zielonki (Tricholoma equestre) season. For me they make the most wonderful soup as they keep a little al dente texture and have a lovely flavour. Now I'm salivating like a bloodhound.

I read in a few sources that, unfortunately, mushrooms absorb radioactive fallout and other harmful elements.

Wow, I have never picked so many noble mushrooms on one day! ::):) Were they clean?


We pick them in Beskid Niski mountains when we go on holiday there.


We pick them up in winter, in Krakow shops. :):):):)


Not so much, come on. :):):) About 9 zlotys for 0.5 kg.

Strange but I have never seen wild oyster mushrooms.


Yes, the season was poorer than in last years but I know some places of which other pickers have no idea so my mushroom hunts were always successful. Soon, I will post pics. :):):):) After 3 years` break, I made two dozen pickles. :):):)

Not much mushroom picking in California, except for some areas such as Sonoma. On the way to Treblinka, I noticed an area where mushroom picking is supposed to be great. Not enough time for picking on my last Polish vacation though. Perhaps next trip, if time allows...

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Here in Central Jersey where the pine barens begin you can find some podpinki(that's what my father called them)

where in central jersey? im in ocean county?

in US, when you mention picking mushrooms, most will assume you're into psychedelics.

ha ha same here in Wales, full stop. Although I did collect a few normal field type mushrooms last year, they were delicious, but will leave it to the babcias of POland to be more adventurous, don't wish to poison myself!

Old Bridge. Right at the Middlesex-Monmouth County Line


Not in New Jersey! LOL Maybe in the Southwest eg peyote :)

I'll be in Zielona Góra soon, where I remember the picking was anything but slim ;)

I live in Oregon and we collect lots of culinary mushrooms. Mostly chanterelles.

It sounds strange to me too.

I don't really do it (mushroom picking) but oysters (in Ireland anyway) are known as one of the so called "safe four" i.e. relative amateurs, whilst obviously employing some common sense and caution, can identify and find them all over the place.

Incidentally, the other three of the safe four are, I think, morel, puffball and chanterelle.

Oysters are really pretty common here.

There were hundreds of people selling mushroom and berries along Warsaw-Bialystok road. I didn't see anyone buying though. In many countries/areas people just left their produce (mostly vegetables and fruits) on the side of the road with a box to drop money but I didn't see one like that in Poland. I think it could be used as a measure of the honesty of general populace in the area.

It's common in Scandinavia. To be honest, I think many people, in many countries would take advantage of this set-up though.

Most of them. We took the pic because it was an exceptionally good day!


Be careful when looking for morels (Morchella esculenta). There is a similar-looking one, Turban Fungus (Gyromitra esculenta) which can be fatal. Both are pretty much the same colour and have a similar stem, but The Turban Fungus looks a bit like a brain, while the morel is more honeycomb-like.


Look out for poplars at the side of the road which were felled a few years ago. Boczniak spread all over the stump and can be found at any time of the year.

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According to a spokesman for the Chief Sanitary Inspectorate Jan Bondar, 80 people were treated in hospital last year for serious mushroom poisoning. Seven people died. Source: thenews.pl

In the autumn (fall, if you prefer) literally tens of thousands of people go mushrooming in a single day. Seven deaths is a very small number when you consider that each incident of poisoning probably affects several family members. When you consider the huge number of active mushroomers in Poland, the casualty rate is in fact astonishingly low, and is itself a tribute to Poles' knowledge of nature.

How many Japanese die of eating their delicious poisonous fish?

Six in 2002, but no more than three a year since then have died from eating Blowfish.

Just a selection of nature's bounty in wonderful Podlasie.

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  Boczniak on a Poplar stump
  
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Do Poles eat milk-mushrooms?




Impressive pile of borowiks! :)

Here's possibly the largest mushroom in existence. It's located in the small town of Homeland, California.

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A giant fungus of the species Armillaria solidipes (honey mushrooms) in the Malheur National Forest in Oregon was found to span 8.9 km2 (2,200 acres),[4] which would make it the largest organism by area. Whether or not this is an actual individual organism, however, is disputed: some tests have indicated that they have the same genetic makeup,[5] but unless its mycelia are fully connected, it is a clonal colony of numerous smaller individuals. Source: Wiki

Becksi. Do you mean the tall thing near the right-hand corner of the building? What is it?

The whole building itself is meant to represent the shape of a giant toadstool. It must have been made by some hippies in the 1960's.